Constituency for Africa president Melvin Foote plans to press the Trump administration to boost emergency relief aid to Sierra Leone, he told the West African nation's ambassador to Washington, today.

"Without question CFA must respond to the crisis in Sierra Leone. We will do what we can to press the US Administration to respond to the immediate crisis in Sierra Leone, and also inform and press African-Americans and the Diaspora to also do what we can to generate a significant...

The sad mudslide tragedy that took the lives of almost 1,000 people in Freetown, Sierra Leone, stands as another dark chapter in a country that has experienced its share of both epidemic and brutal civil war that has yet to bring about healing.

With technology as advanced as it is today, the world was able to see the captured images of dead people, collapsing buildings in real time with rescue...

About 809 students will each get back $2,800 after a $2.5 million settlement with DeVry University, New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has announced. The Attorney General’s investigation found that DeVry lured students with ads that exaggerated graduates’ success in finding employment and contained inadequately substantiated claims about graduates’ salary...

On Tuesday, Donald Trump made clear what many in New York City already knew: he is a morally repugnant racist with no shame. He is also mentally unstable.

In a bizarre press conference tirade, Trump defended the “alt-right” White supremacists who brought deadly violence to Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. He said some of these bigoted violent thugs were “good people.” Trump talked of a fictional “alt-left” who he mendaciously claimed...

“I have travelled across the length and breadth and have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of that caliber that I do not think we would ever conquer this country unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and...

Google Maps still lists the Charlottesville park, where I was first pepper sprayed this weekend, as “Lee Park.” The city disagrees, saying that it’s now Emancipation Park.

Either way – the massive statue of Confederate War General Robert E. Lee still towers over the park, which today is filled with grown men wearing hockey gear and holding home made shields that a 12-year-old LARPer would be ashamed of...

From the blog

Over the last few days, during this observance of the first anniversary of the execution of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, were now hearing chants of Weve got to fight back and We are ready for war.

That weve reached this dangerous place in the fight against police abuse was...

Last week a New York Police Department officer was suspended after a video emerged showing him kicking a suspect being arrested, now a group of NYPD officers are being investigated for bringing down Sandra Amezquita a...